The disease also cures: the disease as a source of authentic human life in the literary work of Fernando Namora

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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i29.107145

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Fernando Namora, literature, narrative medicine, disease

Abstract

From the books Retalhos da vida de um médico, O homem disfarçado and Domingo à tarde, from the Portuguese writer Fernando Namora, in which the protagonists are doctors, we reflect on: the fictionalization of clinical activity; the intersection of the patient`s individual knowledge and the universal knowledge of the disease (summoning the lukácsian concept of particularity); meanings and assignable prejudice to the disease (personal and social); psychological and emotional states of patients and doctors (taking as a starting point confession and self-analysis); anamnesis and doctor-patient interaction; how the disease may contribute to the fall of the masks of those who have to deal with it, both patients and clinicians.

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  • Fernando Teixeira Batista, Universidade do Porto. Faculdade de Letras

    Licenciatura em Humanidades Clássicas pela Faculdade de Filosofia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

    Mestrado em Supervisão Pedagógica em Ensino do Português, pela Universidade do Minho, com uma dissertação sobre a leitura de poesia na escola.

    Doutoramento em Literaturas e Culturas Românicas, na especialidade de Literatura Portuguesa, pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, com uma tese sobre a obra literária de Fernando Namora. 

    Participação em congressos internacionais com comunicações sobre a obra de Fernando Namora e sobre a relação Medicina/Literatura. 

    Publicação de artigos em livros e revistas nacionais com textos sobre a obra literária de Fernando Namora e sobre a literatura portuguesa neorrealista.

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Published

2016-09-27

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 1 (2016): Tecidos do humano - literatura e medicina

Section

Dossiê 29: Tecidos do Humano - Literatura e Medicina

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Copyright (c) 2016 Fernando Teixeira Batista

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BATISTA, Fernando Teixeira. The disease also cures: the disease as a source of authentic human life in the literary work of Fernando Namora. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 17, n. 1, p. 239–252, 2016. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i29.107145. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/107145.. Acesso em: 19 may. 2024.